Thoughts on family, faith & film.

french

The stereotypes mainstream audiences may have regarding French cinema, i.e. overtly sexual, weird, twisted are checked off to a T in Raw, a movie about a horny, murderous, cannibalistic veterinary student.
It is as memorable as it is perturbing.

B

The dishonor for most disappointing movie of the year will probably go to Maiwenn’s Mon Roi, who had me truly excited for her follow up to her fantastic and moving Polisse. But this movie? With characters with these traits, separation is a blessing, not a tragedy, so I do not care.

D

Rarely melodramatic or cliched, and unafraid to be ambiguous about the fate of the accused and their victims, Polisse lives up to the snobbish standard that French cinema is leaps ahead of it’s American counterpart.